11-Month Old Wakes up at 4:30Am

You have my sympathies. I had two children 16 months apart, my youngest didn't sleep through the night until she was 15 months old. Because my husband worked the late shift he would handle the night time stuff, but it was still exhausting being woken up.

The night I weaned her off her bottle - put her to bed with cuddles not milk, she slept straight through and from then every night after. I will never know if she was suffering from reflux or waking herself up wetting her diaper but it was like a magic switch was flipped. Perhaps your son is suffering from the same unknown problem.

Hi P.,

We have an 8 month old and we decided to cancel the night feeding. So we feed her around 11p.m. and put her down. She wakes up around 4 or 5a.m. and we bring her to our bed. She shares a room with our 3 yr old son and I don't want him to wake up. She stays awake for MAYBE 10 minutes and then she doses off because we don't interact with her and we don't feed her. If we didn't fall back asleep ourselves I'm sure that we could put her back in her crib and she would continue to sleep until 7a.m. She has learned over the past week that the bottle isn't coming and she goes back to sleep pretty well.

I hope this helps,
N.

I agree about giving a little cereal in the bottle at night. I would not let a baby get used to being left hungary at 4am. That will make your morning miserable, as that scream of hurting tummy leaves you unable to do any thing but feed the baby. As with all of these parental tasks--trial and error can be hard. Just remember, even though you are getting a lot of advise, NO 2 BABIES ARE THE SAME. What works for some won't work for all.

By the way, I always brought mine to bed if she woke me.

Is it out of the question to just bring her into bed with you for the morning? If she is nursing then you'd both just fall asleep and barely wake up.

I say don't feed him-- it'll mean a few (3 or 4, I'd guess) even less sleep nights, but then he'll get the hang of it and you'll all sleep better and feel better. Good luck!

Have you tried giving him a couple of teaspoons of cereal in his bottle at night before putting him to bed.

perhaps you can play some music in his bedroom nature sounds of classical have it rather low this allows to sleep and upon waking he will not be startle but it may even relax him back to sleep. I hope these things can help.